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Genesis 23:3
And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying,
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Genesis 23:3 in other translations
And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,
Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,
Abraham rose up from before his dead and spoke to the children of Heth, saying,
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In context
1 And Sarah was a hundred and twenty-seven years old: [these were] the years of the life of Sarah.
2 And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same [is] Hebron in the land of Canaan: And Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
3 And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying,
4 I [am] a stranger and a sojourner with you; give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,
6 Hear us, my lord; thou [art] a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchers bury thy dead: none of us will withhold from thee his sepulcher, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
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